Example sentences of "and [modal v] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also got on well with the justices of the Jews and may for a brief period have enjoyed some sort of official position in the Exchequer of the Jews . |
| 2 | Other more ‘ enlightened ’ strategies are possible , and may in the long run prove more profitable . |
| 3 | To identify English as peculiarly problematical should not weaken the general defence of humane values in education , and may in the longer run help to strengthen them . |
| 4 | If staff find themselves having to implement policy which they have no part in making , they may have little commitment to it and may in the longer term become alienated . |
| 5 | It will require constant monitoring of the technological situation and may in the longer term necessitate several changes of format to keep pace with changes in storage devices and technique . |
| 6 | ‘ My uncles and must of the other Khans take such pains when they speak to me , and yet you go to no trouble at all . |
| 7 | All agencies of mass culture , i.e. the press , the radio , the television and the cinema , stand in this dialectical relation to the individual and must in the last resort concern themselves with value judgements . |
| 8 | The popular poet 's imagination , skill and learning could concoct , at that instant , a sustained story with a cast of hundreds that linked all those wars , love affairs , catastrophes , comedies and come-what-may into a coherent whole . |
| 9 | The king 's " boys " were trained for war , and could in the last resort be used as a sort of flying squad to coerce a recalcitrant local potens on his home-ground . |
| 10 | So far from sending prices up , the abolition of licensing would immediately bring down the market price of existing houses and would in a short time begin to make an impression on the costs of new ones ; for the pressure of demand for new houses at a cost of nearly £2,000 apiece for a council-type is , in our opinion , very limited . |
| 11 | But JUSt as it IS proper for me to look back to my wedding day as assurance that I am really married , so it is proper to look back to my baptism as a mark given me by the Holy Spirit that I am really born again in Christ , and to the eucharist as a pledge that I do partake of his life , feed on him , and shall in the last day share his resurrection . |